Intersections : Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature) - Softcover

Rajan, Tilottama; Clark, David L.

9780791422588: Intersections : Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)

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ISBN 10: 0791422585 ISBN 13: 9780791422588

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1995

This is a study of the relationship between postmodernism and post-enlightenment German thought reading the contemporary theoretical scene through its nineteenth-century counterpart and examining the intersections.

Focusing on nineteenth-century philosophers from Schelling and Hegel to Nietzsche, and on contemporary theorists from Derrida to Kristeva and Lyotard, the essays in this book suggest that the two areas are most similar at the points where they seem most unlike. Tracing the links of contemporary thought to its nineteenth-century precursors, the authors explore such issues as the re-theorizing of history and the subject, the limits and persistence of the metaphysical, and the ends of theory.

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Focusing on nineteenth-century philosophers from Schelling and Hegel to Nietzsche, and on contemporary theorists form Derrida to Kristeva and Leotard, the essays in this book suggest that the two areas are most similar at the points where they seem most unlike. Tracing the links of contemporary thought to its nineteenth-century precursors, the authors explore such issues as the reauthorizing of history and the subject, limits and persistence of the metaphysical, and the ends of theory.

About the Author:

Tilottama Rajan is Professor in the Department of English and the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Dark Interpreter: The Discourse of Romanticism and The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice.

David L. Clark is Associate Professor of English at McMaster University. He is coeditor of (with Donald Goellnicht) New Romanticism: Theory and Critical Practice.

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